Match The Headline Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1969

October 21, 1969 -
A spokesman for the Beatles said this was "rubbish", but fans kept combing through song lyrics and and album covers, searching for cryptic clues. The rumor has it that Paul McCartney died in a 1966 car crash.

Answer: 1964

Feb. 25, 1964 -
Liston fell victim to a brash young fighter who claimed he would "Float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee". Liston stayed on his stool when the bell rang for the seventh round, giving Clay the TKO.

Answer: 1960

July 8, 1960 -
Khrushchev steps up his anti-American rhetoric as Powers, whose U-2 spy plane was shot down in May, is indicted on espionage charges.

Answer: 1966

July 19, 1966 -
The sole survivor of the mass murders identified Richard Speck as the culprit.
"That's the man!", said Corazon Amurso, identifying him from the doorway to his hospital room.

Answer: 1963

March 21, 1963 -
An Army prison in 1909, and a Federal Penitentiary since 1934 until 1963, when the last 27 prisoners are transferred, "the Rock" is suffering from the wear of weather and winds. It was the most expensive prison in the Federal system, costing taxpayers $13 a day per prisoner, compared with $5.40 per prisoner per day elsewhere.

Answer: 1968

December 22, 1968 -
David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and person for whom Camp David is named, married Julie Nixon, daughter of Vice President Richard Nixon, in New York city. They were both twenty years old.

Answer: 1961

Feb. 15, 1961 -
A Sabina Airlines 707 jet en route from New York crashed near the Brussels Airport, killing all 72 aboard, including 49 Americans. Among the Americans were 18 members of the U.S. figure-skating team, on its way to a world championship in Prague.

Answer: 1965

April 9, 1965 -
The world's first domed stadium, the Harris County Stadium, later to be re-named the Houston Astrodome, opened to a sold-out audience of 47,879.
They came to see the new stadium and an exhibition game between the Astros and the New York Yankees. President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Ladybird, were in attendance.

Answer: 1967

January 27, 1967 -
Astronauts Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire that engulfed their space capsule during a full-scale simulation of the scheduled Feb. 28 launch that would have put them in orbit for a fourteen-day mission. Officials blamed a spark that ignited the pure oxygen inside the cabin of the spacecraft.

Answer: 1962

Feb. 4, 1962 -
President Kennedy issued a total ban on Cuban imports, depriving the Castro government of some $35 billion in annual income. "The embargo will limit Cuba's capacity to subvert other Latin American countries", Kennedy said.